Army - marching through March

[satz123]

Check this out :

http://iti.ms/1CkJ2AF

[roxane]

one of my grandfathers was irish. i think. a bit tenuous but thats what ive got.

[JackieClaire]

I've been to Ireland............does that count.

[satz123]

All of the above counts to being Irish:haha:

[JackieClaire]

Just wish we got a day off for St George.

Edit............off to work I go. Have a jolly green day.

[satz123]

[roxane]

didnt know about no dinosaurs. isnt the snake thing becAUSE ireland is mostly peat? acidic? or is it alkaline?

[satz123]

didnt know about no dinosaurs. isnt the snake thing becAUSE ireland is mostly peat? acidic? or is it alkaline?

:haha:

[roxane]

:haha:

no? :newhere:

[satz123]

We do know that St. Patrick was a missionary to Ireland. His goal was to convert the pagan Irish to Christianity. From all accounts, he was very successful. We know the pagans of Ireland as the Druids. Their symbol was … the snake.

Today, Christians assert that St. Patrick only banished a sacrificial Druid religion, an expulsion symbolically represented by the banishment of snakes. Pagans, on the other hand, claim that St. Patrick forced Christian conversion with the threat of violence, and actually killed many Druid priests who refused to convert.

It sounds to me like one side glorifies St. Patrick as a peaceful man doing the Lord’s peaceful work while demonizing a corrupt Druid culture by accusing it of practicing child sacrifice, and the other side glorifies Druid culture as livingin innocent harmony with nature while demonizing St. Patrick by accusing him of being a violent missionary.

I’m not interested in glorifying or demonizing either side. The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle. Maybe the best we can learn from the tradition of St. Patrick and the Druids is that we humans have a long tradition of scapegoating one another. We continue to demonize our scapegoats. Republicans and Democrats, Christians and Muslims, rich and poor – we tend to think that we are the good guys and they are the bad guys.

All the while neglecting that the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.

[satz123]

BUT : Why no snakes ?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...ireland_2.html

[roxane]

interesting. still think its the type of land. the slow worm points to that. guam eco system has been ravaged by introduced snakes, no one in ireland, ever, has dumped pet snakes? reptiles didnt make it? they had a window of (hundreds of) thousands of years before the sea developed. my head hurts.

[satz123]

interesting. still think its the type of land. the slow worm points to that. guam eco system has been ravaged by introduced snakes, no one in ireland, ever, has dumped pet snakes? reptiles didnt make it? they had a window of (hundreds of) thousands of years before the sea developed. my head hurts.

Good point Rox - it's peculiar eh?

[roxane]

interesting twaddle though.

[satz123]

crikey ---- my head hurts too ---- thought St Patrick was one of them banned/extinct saints anyhows? didn't exist? it's all a load of twaddle imvvvvvVho

Ah you & I know the whole thing is bullshit - like a lot of the stuff we were subject to